Oklahoma Social Studies 7.C.7.3.A
The Standard
- 7.C.7
- Examine and compare economic systems as means by which governments organize and distribute available resources, services, and goods.
- 7.C.7.3
- Evaluate how the major sectors of economic activities contribute to the development of a country or region:
Extraction and harvesting of natural products (Primary Sector)
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 7.C.7.3
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify jobs that collect raw materials from land or water, such as growing wheat, catching fish, cutting timber, and drilling for oil. They separate those jobs from work that turns raw materials into products.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can sort job descriptions and explain why drilling for crude oil belongs with harvesting wheat. They can name the raw material each job collects and explain why refining oil or baking bread comes later.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may count making furniture as harvesting timber, even though the wood has already been collected. They may think only crops count as natural products and leave out fish, minerals, and oil.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask students to circle the jobs that collect raw materials: catching fish, canning fish, drilling for oil, refining oil, cutting trees, and building chairs. Have them name the raw material collected in two jobs they circled.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs picture cards of wheat, fish, timber, bread, and furniture; have them place raw materials on one mat and finished products on another.
Ask, 'Why is drilling for oil different from refining it?' Have students write one sentence describing each job.
Play Raw or Made: read jobs such as mining iron ore and making steel; teams hold up a card and explain their choice.
Have students check a cereal box and a cotton shirt tag, then name the raw material used to make each item.
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